Specialized Consultant for NATO Infrastructure Services

March 18

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McBride is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that provides cross-industry solutions and support focusing on strategy, operations, and technology. The company is dedicated to delivering results for both public and private sector organizations, utilizing an experienced team to address financial, operational, and system-related capabilities while ensuring high customer satisfaction.

Business Strategy Development • Program Management • Finance • Accounting • Audit Readiness Support

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

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🏛️ Government

📋 Description

• Expert-level support for NATO elements (NDS, ACT HQ and NCI Agency) with the emerging Metadata Labelling Strategy and the Data Centric Security Strategy. • The design of Test Cases and coordination with test partners will be required in preparation for CWIX 2025. • This may require demonstration and testing of Data Centric Security (DCS) components. • Participation in the CWIX 2025 Exercise to support NCI Agency in executing defined Test Cases and preparing the Final Report; • Expert level support for the modification, development and validation of Binding Profiles in support of TIDE and CWIX activities. • Expert level support of NCI Agency to coordinate with nations and the development of non-finite binding mechanisms and a detailed Implementation Plan for achieving the strategic realisation described in Metadata Labelling and Data Centric Security Vision & Strategy documents; • Review and input to achieve revisions to the current NATO FMN Implementation Plan, especially the profile templates and instructions and contribute to similar profile templates and instructions for AFS; • Expert level support to NCMS STANAG 5636 ( ADatP ) development and ratification process. • Expert level support for the development of the Core Services technical Architectures using the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) and the validation of the proposed architecture. • Review and input into the technical design and test cases for delivery of the IEG-C solution. • Review and input into the Federated Identity Management policy, standardization and experiments.

🎯 Requirements

• Expert knowledge of NATO’s Data Centric Security (DCS) and Zero Trust vision and strategy, along with expert technical knowledge of enablers such as the NATO Metadata Binding Service and NATO End Point Labelling demonstrators. • Detailed knowledge of Industry and NATO standards in the area of labelling, binding and marking. • Expert knowledge of NATO Confidentiality Label Syntax specifications, profiles and emerging standards. • Expert knowledge of NATO Metadata Binding Mechanism specifications, profiles and emerging standards. • Expert knowledge of NATO Core Metadata Specification, profiles and emerging standards. • Expert knowledge of NATO Core Data Framework (NCDF) and related profiles and emerging standards. • Detailed knowledge of NATO’s STANAG and IEPD processes. • Detailed knowledge of NATO cross-domain solutions and information exchange requirements. • Detailed knowledge of FMN concepts, evolutionary strategy and the NFIP. • Detailed knowledge of AFS concepts, evolutionary strategy and the AFS Joining Instructions. • Detailed knowledge of methods and mechanisms to resolve security label translation/mapping between NATO and NATO national systems. • Detailed knowledge of federated Identity and Access Management (IdAM) policies, standards and industry trends. • Detailed knowledge and experience with Web Service-specific security standards and products including Security Policy Information File (SPIF), OIDC, SAML 1.x and 2.0, XACML, WS-Security, WS- Trust, Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), and competing products in this space. • Detailed knowledge and experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation concepts including Web Services, SOAP, REST, Publish-Subscribe, JSON, XML, WSDL and UDDI, as well as Web Services specifications. • Detailed knowledge and experience with specific security areas including PKI, X.509, and products including Microsoft Certificate Services and Entrust Certificate Authority. • Knowledge of the Enterprise NPKI would be beneficial. • Expertise in commercial security labelling products and object level protection solutions. • In-depth familiarity with NATO organisational and political structures and relationships with NATO and Partner nations. • Good understanding of cryptography. • Good understanding of the project management methodologies, including PRINCE 2 and Agile/Scrum.